Redbill: From Pearls to Peace — The Life and Times of A Remarkable Lugger

by Kate Lance

Price $29.95

About the Book

Once there were hundreds of wooden ketches like Redbill fishing for pearlshell in the old north-west, but none of them had her amazing gift for survival. Redbill lived through the great days of Broome pearling, and when war came to Darwin she was there as bombs began to fall. In Papua she hunted crocodiles and carried cargo for a tribe reclaiming its lost arts. As Redbill of Greenpeace she sailed the South Pacific to defy the French. She helped the refugees of East Timor, she carried troubled teenagers through the rough waters of Bass Strait and she found the way home for a young Aboriginal man. Over a century Redbill coped with a lot — and then she ran into Rosita, the most powerful tropical cyclone to strike Broome in ninety years …

Like many before her, author Kate Lance fell for the Redbill’s gentle magic, and in this richly illustrated book she traces the many lives of a most remarkable vessel.

Category

History

Publication Year

2004

Publisher

Fremantle Press

ISBN11

1 92073 142 3

ISBN13

9 781920 731427

HB/PB

Paperback

Format

C Format (228mm x 158mm)

Pages

400

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